Free speech comes with responsibility

Updated 6:12 pm, Monday, August 5, 2013

Regardless of how you feel about our state's recent abortion politics — and passions are high — there is no excuse for threats.

Debate can be passionate and civil. Meaningful political expressions are made at the ballot box.

The state's Department of Public Safety was acting reasonably to initially subpoena the accounts of two Twitter users who posted threatening comments about Gov. Rick Perry, and other officials, during last month's abortion debate.

On July 18, an Austin woman tweeted: “Should we execute Perry by lethal injection or stoning for all he's killed.”